The unique miniature model of the Russian Federation, picturing the whole country from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, is opening in St. Petersburg in 2011. In the project called “The Grandmaket” they used the ideas and techniques of the tradition of making table lay-outs of the well-known places and historical events once so popular in the Soviet Union. However, the tradition somewhat deteriorated in the post-Soviet years so the project is the  [ Read More ]

768 smiling people gathered today in the Croatia capital, Zagreb to set the Guinness World Record for the largest human smiley face. The previous record was 551 participants and are held by residents of Riga, Latvia. To set the record was officially confirmed certified judge from Guinness World Records, Tarika Vara.

Former oil rig worker David Reynolds has spent more than 10,000 hours gluing over 250,000 matches to form hundreds of his matchstick ships model. He has created 20 legendary vessels including the Titanic, Queen Mary, HMS Victory, the QE2, Cutty Sark, the May Flower, USS Constitution, the Mary Rose and a replica of a North Sea oil platform. The model of a North Sea oil platform is made up of  [ Read More ]

Every object for photography actually has something else than only the surface, and you can discover that by doing X-ray photography. Here is a selection of some amazing photos that photographer Nick Veasey has captured. He thinks that we are too busy thinking about the surface, and that many times we are superficial because we don’t care of what’s inside. He wants to change that and show how things can  [ Read More ]

Cineplexx and Avenue Mall Osijek, Osijek, Croatia, today got the Guinness record for making the biggest box of popcorn in the world! This unusual event took place outside the main entrance to the mall Avenue Mall Osijek. To break the record Cineplexx prepared even 2.8 tons of crunchy popcorn that filled a box that was 5.37 meters high and 2.5 to 3.5 meters wide, with a volume around 52 000  [ Read More ]

The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode of the new, groundbreaking show Human Planet. The film shows an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, in never before seen detail. The BBC film crew used HD cameras and state-of-the-art techniques from a distance of over half a mile to capture the footage.

A 150-meter-tall hotel designed in the shape of a ping-pong racket will be built in Huainan city, East China’s Anhui province, as part of a complex to tap the wealth of the sports industry. The hotel, located in a planned Olympic park covering an area of over 1,000 mu (67 hectares), has an estimated investment of 300 million yuan. It will feature three parts, the top designed for sight-seeing, the  [ Read More ]

You know those scary Scandinavian stories about the trolls that live in the forest and kidnaps little children? Well, that is only fairytales, so there is actually no such thing, right? A lost garden in UK is proving us wrong. The Lost Gardens of Heligan are full of gigantic sculptures and shapes that are scary in a way. Statues of strange forest creatures that look like humans but still have  [ Read More ]

Love and loyalty are the words when we talk about two storks from Brodska Varos, Croatia. It all began in 1993 when Stjepan Vokic, a school superintendent in Brodska Varos, found a stork with a hurt wing from a hunter’s bow. He adopted this bird and has since then healed it because the poor stork could obviously no longer fly. He named the stork Malena, and during the whole winter  [ Read More ]

In this hilarious video Sam and Ren 17-month-old twins standing next to a refrigerator are speaking to each other in baby talk and seem to understand exactly what is being said. I think the one on the left is going to be an attorney